Thursday, February 13, 2014

Setback

I am embarrassed to write this post so soon into my foray into my Three Paths resolution. I need to admit to a failure in my personal goal of  daily exercise. It hasn't happened, and I feel a little ashamed that it was a public declaration which I couldn't keep.
However, there is some positive aspects to highlight from my first attempt. For three weeks I have fasted, a single day a week is completely achievable, and hasn't negatively impacted on my milk supply. The second encouraging point was daily yoga was well within my grasp and a ten minute commitment easily stretched to 20 minutes or more. I stretched for the first 10 days of 21.
Okay I got a few sentences down before I plead the excuse, I couldn't focus on my exercise resolution because I was sad. Did that come across as convincing? I don't know if even I am totally convinced. I had a few hard days, and my first emotional and miserable day in more than a year because of a big life crisis and the wheels totally fell off my exercise. As to the life crisis, stay tuned as it effects one of the other Paths here, and warrants a post of its own.
So the future of exercise? Walking is uncertain, it is a logistical marathon to leave the house with Archer in tow, and I only made it out of the house to walk twice in the past three weeks. I hold some hope that if I am aiming for only 10 minutes I can fit it in between activities with Archer without having to plan for a walk excessively, and will have to push myself to test this theory, as it is the only way forward.
Life gives me so many excuses not to duck out for a stroll, I have begun my afternoon piano lessons again, which always seem to conflict with a  perfect walk time, but isn't that the way with us all? we feel tragically motivated to do just the thing we are avoiding the moment we realise we cannot possibly do it. We are safe from the terrible job we are avoiding and can lament to ourselves, "oh no if only I had the time, I would do that right now" incidentally I feel this way about lots of things all the time, washing up and other housework mostly. So I need to work on walking with some focus or it will fail again. Yoga is okay I can pick that up again now, tonight after I post this I can jump on the mat, and that ends the post on a positive note, this exercise resolution can quickly get halfway back on track.

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